The Great National Assembly of the Serbian People in Montenegro or the Podgorica Assembly ( Serbian. Velika narodna skupština srpskog naroda u Crnoј Gori, Podgorička skupština ) - a meeting of the people's representatives of Montenegro , held in Podgorica in November 1918 and decided to unite with Serbia .
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History
Historical conditions
In 1918, supporters of the preservation of the Negoshi dynasty in the Montenegrin People's Assembly formed a minority. At this time, King Nicholas I , who fled the country during World War I, announced his intention to return to Montenegro. At the same time, Serbia, pursuing the goal of creating a single Yugoslav state, opposed the restoration of the Montenegrin state. In this, Serbia was supported by France, which, with the help of military loans, brought the Serbian economy under control by the end of the war. England and the United States were against the creation of a single Yugoslav state under the auspices of France, so they were satisfied with the old order in the Balkans. Neighboring Italy was interested in maintaining independent Montenegro, while in Italy there were plans to capture the Bay of Kotor . In the conditions of the offensive of the Italian occupation forces in the Balkans, on November 24, 1918, the People’s Chamber in Zagreb decided to unite the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs with Serbia and Montenegro [1] .
Great People's Assembly
From November 6 to 19, 1918, elections to the People’s Assembly of Montenegro were held in the regions of Montenegro, which were not based on the electoral law of pre-war Montenegro and Serbia. On November 11, as planned, the first meeting of the People’s Assembly, consisting of 165 representatives, was held in Podgorica . In the first two days, the leadership of the assembly, including its chairman, was elected by secret ballot. At the meeting on November 13, the assembly made a four-point decision: including the deposition of King Nikola and his dynasty, and the unification of Montenegro and Serbia into a single state under the rule of the Serbian Karageorgievich dynasty [2] .
On November 26, 1918, the People's Assembly of Montenegro decided to unite with Serbia. After the People’s Assembly of Vojvodina decided on annexation on November 25, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was created on December 1, 1918 [1] .
See also
- Constitution of Montenegro 1905
- (1905-1916)
- The creation of Yugoslavia
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Bromley, Yu.V. et al. History of Yugoslavia. - M .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1963. - T. 2. - S. 33, 34.
- ↑ Unification of Montenegro and Serbia in 1918 . // njegos.org. Date of treatment May 1, 2015.
Links
- The decision of the Great People's Assembly of November 28, 1918 At Wikitsitatnik (Serb.)
- The decision of the Great People's Assembly of November 13, 1918 (Serb.)